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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Way too busy',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/09/19.jpg" alt="A cash register full of fake money" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="photograph">
	<h2>Photograph</h2>
	<p>
		I&apos;m aware the photo in the header today is from yesterday.
		I was far too busy today to go out specifically to take pictures though, and though I made sure to have my camera on me when I ran other errands, I forgot to grab a photo until I was already home.
		So please enjoy this photo of the fake money in the register from yesterday&apos;s prank.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			When you say health is a state free form illness, it makes it sound like health is a binary thing.
			You&apos;re either completely healthy or not healthy at all.
			No one has perfect health though, and only the dead have no health whatsoever.
			Health is a continuum.
			You can become more or less healthy than you currently are without going to either extreme.
		</p>
		<p>
			Additionally, I don&apos;t think it makes sense to say our lives have a big or small impact on our health.
			If an activity has a large impact on our health, by definition, not engaging in that activity has a large impact as well.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			The fact that we can&apos;t enter the letters as numeric grades in the system is a big part of why we can&apos;t label them as numeric values at all.
			If it&apos;s numeric, it can be entered as a number.
			By assigning an abstract letter to it, we&apos;re adding another layer as you said.
			The numeric grade is still a number, but the layer that uses letters instead is in no way numeric.
		</p>
		<p>
			The problem gave us values to enter.
			It didn&apos;t say to enter different values <strong>*based on*</strong> the given values.
			So sure, we weren&apos;t told to use specifically those values, but by not telling us to do otherwise, wanting those specific values to be used is <strong>*strongly*</strong> implied.
		</p>
		<p>
			Unlike the mean and median, the mode is completely irrelevant to the data type.
			You can get the mode easily, yes, but that&apos;s not because you converted the letters into numbers.
			The mode is simply the value that shows up most frequently, so you can get eh mode of factors as well as numerics.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I&apos;m not sure why you&apos;re suggesting I use R to calculate the average as if I didn&apos;t.
			I could&apos;ve used my head, pen and paper, Galculator, R, $a[PHP], or Java to calculate the average and you&apos;d have no way to know what tool I&apos;d used.
			What makes you think I didn&apos;t use R to calculate the average?
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Yeah, I&apos;m pursuing a computer science degree.
			I always start from zero.
			It&apos;s just what makes sense.
			To me, skipping zero is like what I imagine other people think of skipping one to be like.
			Can you even imagine starting with number two and working up from there?
		</p>
		<p>
			Yeah, the worst part about the downed archive is that the school sent me a threatening letter about it, then when I complied, they never responded.
			I spent a couple terms in fear that they might hit me anyway even though I&apos;d done as they&apos;d asked, as they never even acknowledged my compliance.
			And like you said, them censoring my archive doesn&apos;t curtail cheating in any way.
			People in the real world do Web searches, and so do students.
			Anyone that&apos;d&apos;ve used my archive to cheat is now getting their answers from somewhere the school lacks the power to censor.
			They&apos;ve attacked an innocent student while not actually solving anything whatsoever.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			There&apos;s no mistake in what numbered answers I compared.
			If you look at the assignment, it indexes from one, while my submission indexes from zero.
			I would never think of indexing from one myself, except when working in some annoying languages such as Lua.
			So my answer numbers are one less than the problem numbers.
		</p>
		<p>
			I used R to calculate the average for practice, but didn&apos;t trust the answer given by R.
			I double checked using Galculator, a trusted calculator that I know I know how to use.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I don&apos;t think R is the problem.
			True, R can&apos;t average the names of fruit, but why is that?
			It&apos;s because words like that can&apos;t be averaged.
			I mean, just try averaging them with a pen and paper.
			Where do you even start?
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="lights">
	<h2>Bike lights</h2>
	<p>
		My mother sent me out to get bike lights for the family.
		The people that run the bus system were giving them away, citing a desire by the company for cyclists to be seen so they don&apos;t get hit, with the nights starting earlier this time of year.
		It was probably a combination of a publicity stunt and a concern about the liability of hitting people, but still, it should do some good.
		My mother said they&apos;d specifically advertised that you could send one family member to pick up some for the whole family; that you didn&apos;t have to bring the whole family to the giveaway location if you don&apos;t want to.
		So that&apos;s what I did.
		I&apos;ll bring them to her when I get a chance.
		I didn&apos;t get the impression she&apos;s in any rush, particularly because she doesn&apos;t have a bike at the moment, but now was the time to get them because now&apos;s when they&apos;re available.
	</p>
</section>
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